Joseph H. “Jay” Campbell, Jr. is president and chief executive officer of Associated Grocers, a 53 year old retailer owned corporation that services more than 250 independent grocers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. Associated Grocers provides retail accounting, advertising, equipment sales, marketing, retail technology, and promotional merchandising services and support that independent grocers utilize to remain competitive and customer focused in the retail grocery marketplace.

Campbell joined Associated Grocers in 1972 as a part-time bookkeeper while pursuing a bachelor’s degree from LSU. He assumed the position of internal auditor and in-house legal counsel after obtaining his law degree in 1976. Campbell served as treasurer, controller, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, and vice-president of Associated Grocers before being named president and chief executive officer in 1995.

Campbell is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting in 1973 and a Juris Doctor in 1976 from LSU. He serves on the boards of directors of the National Grocers Association, Shurfine International, Capital Area United Way, Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation, the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, and Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center. Campbell remains active in the legal community as a member of the Baton Rouge and Louisiana State Bar Associations and serves as associate director of Louisiana Boys State, the program that first brought him to LSU in 1968. In 2000, Campbell earned the highest honor given by the Ourso College of Business Administration when he was inducted into the Hall of Distinction.

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